Assessing the Risk of Occurrence of Bluetongue in Senegal
Bluetongue is a non-contagious viral disease affecting small ruminants and cattle that can cause severe economic losses in the livestock sector. The virus is transmitted by certain species of the genus Culicoides and consequently, understanding their ...
Marie Cicille Ba Gahn +17 more
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African horse sickness: The potential for an outbreak in disease-free regions and current disease control and elimination techniques [PDF]
African horse sickness (AHS) is an arboviral disease of equids transmitted by Culicoides biting midges. The virus is endemic in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and official AHS disease-free status can be obtained from the World Organization for Animal Health
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Background Vector-borne diseases are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in humans and animals. In the Afrotropical region, some are transmitted by Culicoides, such as Akabane, bluetongue, epizootic haemorrhagic fever and African horse ...
Mamadou Ciss +6 more
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Culicoides spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Tunisia [PDF]
Culicoides is a genus of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. The female midges require blood meals for egg production. There are over 1000 species in the genus, which is divided into many subgenera. Several species are known to be vector of many
Babba, Hamouda +2 more
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Penggunaan Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction pada Vektor Insekta untuk Menguji Keberadaan Virus Bovine Ephemeral Fever [PDF]
Teknik reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) telah dikembangkan untuk memonitor penyakit-penyakit yang disebabkan oleh arbovirus yang ditransmisikan oleh vektor.
DH, Sawitri +3 more
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Background In Senegal, the last epidemic of African horse sickness (AHS) occurred in 2007. The western part of the country (the Niayes area) concentrates modern farms with exotic horses of high value and was highly affected during the 2007 outbreak that ...
Maryam Diarra +9 more
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Révision des espèces de Culicoides apparentées à C. schultzei (Enderlein, 1908) dans la région afrotropicale (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) [PDF]
L'examen de plus de 2000 spécimens de #Culicoides$ du groupe #schultzei$ originaires de la région afrotropicale a permis de reconnaître six espèces dont trois sont nouvelles pour la science : #C. enderleini$, #C. nevilli$ et #C.subschultzei$.
Brunhes, Jacques, Cornet, Michel
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Reevaluation of the taxonomic status of the Culicoides spp. (Diptera:Ceratopogonidae) from Israel and the eastern Mediterranean and review of their potential medical and veterinary importance. [PDF]
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Background & objectives: Biting midges are hematophagous arthropods responsible for zoonotic infectious diseases and have a wide distribution in temperate and tropical latitudes of the world.
Yaj Lu +4 more
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Schmallenberg virus: emergence of an Orthobunyavirus among ruminants in Western Europe [PDF]
Recently, a novel virus has been identified among ruminants in Western Europe. This virus, the so-called Schmallenberg virus, belongs to the family Bunyaviridae, genus Orthobunyavirus, serogroup Simbu and is closely related to Akabane, Aino and Shamonda ...
Bertels, Guido +3 more
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